August 15, 2009
"... Will Your Health Care Be Rationed?
Will People Die Needlessly?
Will Your Taxes Go Through The Roof?
Obama, White House spokesman Bob Gibbs, and a host of others have told you that nothing like that could ever happen.
Let¡¯s take a real case.
The State of Oregon has government-run health care. 64-year-old Barbara Wagner had terminal cancer. Her doctor recommended Tarceva, a new drug he believed could prolong her life.
As soon as he gave Wagner real hope, the State of Oregon reached out its clammy hand and snatched it away.
¡°We were unable to approve [this treatment],¡± said the imperial State ¨C and that¡¯s a real quote. No Tarceva for Wagner. Why not? Because it costs too much.
Mo re specifically, the letter Wagner received from Big Brother stated:
"Treatment of advanced cancer that is meant to prolong life, or change the course of this disease, is not a covered benefit of the Oregon Health Plan."
But did the State of Oregon leave her without an option? No. It told her precisely what the system would do.
Are you ready for this? It would fund ¡°physican aid in dying.¡± That¡¯s a direct quote... right out of the letter.
Interviewed by a reporter, Dr. Son Saha - chairman of the commission that decreed the State would not pay for Wagner's potentially live extending treatment ¨C was almost as oily-tongued as the proponents of ObamaCare.
When asked if the state was refusing to keep her alive but quite willing to help her commit suicide, Dr. Saha said, ¡°I don¡¯t think anyone¡¯s saying that.¡±
When the interviewer pressed him, asking, in effect, if cost was a big factor in determining which treatments to approve or disapprove, Dr. Saha said quietly: ¡°That¡¯s not a question we think about.¡±
However, when backed into a corner, Dr. Saha calibrated his words very, very carefully: ¡°If we invest thousands and thousands of dollars in one person¡¯s days to weeks, we are taking away those dollars from someone [else].¡±
There you have it. That¡¯s government health care ¨C cold and money-grubbing. ..."
It is very easy to image Dr. Saha hosting a fund raiser for the Obamacare bill featuring as guest speaker Obama himself and offering a free copy of the movie 'soylent green' to all those paying the $2000 a plate price tag.
Here is something else to think about:
Social security taxes go into a separate fund just for social security, but congress borrows the money and leaves worthless IOU's, and spends the money on their 'agenda' which does not invest the money for a return, but squanders it on projects that make them feel good. Do you honestly think that money taxed for healthcare will only go to healthcare? Of course it won't and then the project will have money problems and then what will government do? They will ask for more money. How can we possibly throw good money after bad like this.
Here is something else to think about:
"On Tuesday, President Barack Obama, reeling from growing public opposition to his proposed healthcare reform, took to the stage for a town hall meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The stated intent of the event was to correct public misperceptions about the president's proposal. But the outcome spoke more to the plan's weaknesses than its strengths.
Reacting to allegations that the plan's so-called "public option" would result in government pushing private health insurers out of the market, Obama glibly responded, "... I think private insurers should be able to compete. They do it all the time. I mean, if you think about ... UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? ... It's the Post Office that's always having problems."
Such is the curse of being Barack Obama that when he occasionally stumbles onto truth it militates against his ambitions."
When a politician tells you that the "public option" is the one "that's always having problems" at the same time he is trying to convince you to let him start another "public option" then who is more foolish, the politician or the people who let him get away with such foolishness? Can there be any hope for a country that allows this to continue?
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